Lee B. Golden III

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Native New Yorker. Been writing for a long time now, and I enjoy what I do. Be nice to me!

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FANTASTIC FEST 2015 Lays Out The Second Wave Of Forthcoming Titles!

The second wave titles has been announced for next month’s Fantastic Fest with a flurry of films, several of which are already hits from prior festival events. Fans eagerly awaiting to watch Patrick Stewart at his continual best in Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, and folks who love epic sci-fi and suspense thrillers who can’t wait to see Ben Wheatley’s High Rise or Miike Takashi’s Yakuza Apocalypse ahead of its October U.S. release will certainly get their wish on top of titles already on their radar via the first wave. Pay attention, because it only gets better. Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 26, 2015 – Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of programming featuring the US Premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE LOBSTERas the opening night film. Lanthimos will be in attendance to share his wonderfully surreal examination of human connections. Joining THE LOBSTER is a dazzling array of […]

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Lionsgate, White Horse To Adapt Roman Empire Epic, EMPEROR For The Big Screen

Following the success of its YA novel properties like The Twilight Saga, Divergent and The Hunger Games, Deadline is reporting that Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment is teaming up with White Horse Pictures in their first cinematic venture for the forthcoming Roman period saga, Emperor. The goal will be a trilogy of films inspired by author Conn Iggulden’s pentalogy of books published between 2003 and 2013, largely focusing on the political malfeasance and toxicity within the Roman Empire that loomed ahead for the lifelong friendship and subsequent fallout between emperor, Julius Caesar, and friend Marcus Brutus. The film is being staged for a large scale vision akin to the likenesses of shows like HBO series Game Of Thrones and films like 300, with White Horse Pictures founders Nigel Sinclair and Guy East having begun work on the film several years earlier. Pride, Prejudice and Zombies scribe Burr Steers, along with Cast Away […]

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No George Miller For MAN OF STEEL 2

Den Of Geek is reporting that Man Of Steel 2 has been put on “permanent hold”, which is a bit of a shock considering it was only last week that “The Death Of Superman Lives: What Happened?” helmer Jon Schnepp announced that Mad Max: Fury Road helmer George Miller was up to direct the film. Whatever it means, it’s not to suggest that the film won’t happen, especially since there’s been a clear interest in making one now that Warner Bros. is well under way with its DC cinematic universe in addition to a potential Batman trilogy starring and directed by Ben Affleck. Miller himself was supposed to direct DC movie, Justice League back in 2008 as his name was one of several candidates listed, including Lana and Andy Wachowski. His current business also includes adding to the desolate universe of his latest blockbuster success, Mad Max, while it is […]

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Is Roel Reiné Directing A HARD TARGET Sequel?

Much ado has been said among fans for a potential sequel to action auteur John Woo‘s 1993 Hollywood feature, Hard Target. It felt more like a standalone actioner on its face, really, but that doesn’t mean following up would be impossible. Lead actor and action star Jean-Claude Van Damme is all for sequels to any number of his previous milestone hits, what with Hard Target having futher embedded his place as a Hollywood legend. So, if the latest report from Nu is true following earlier blurbs from the set of Van Damme’s China set on Pound Of Flesh, it’s no real surprise and I’m certain that nostalgic fans will surely appreciate this latest offering, now with The Man With The Iron Fists 2 and The Admiral helmer Roel Reiné in the director’s chair. However, there’s at least one catch. Reiné is reportedly set to begin shooting Hard Target 2 in […]

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Japanese Crime Pic, SHIELD OF STRAW Gets The English-Language Remake Treatment

There is not a lot of love lost for director Miike Takashi’s 2013 thriller, Shield Of Straw, based on author Kiuchi Kazuhiro’s 2004 Kodansha crime novel of the same name. Osawa Takao and Matsushima Nanako led the cast with actor Fujiwara Tatsuya central to the film’s premise about a team of Fukuoka detectives who come under fire from swarms of vigilantes when a vengeful billionaire puts a meaty contract out on a Tokyo-bound convoy transporting a murder suspect. Made long prior to Miike’s own professed promise of a return to formula with this year’s Yakuza Apocalypse, Shield Of Straw was nearly panned by critics and fell to a mixture of cheers and louder jeers upon its Cannes premiere. Needless to say, there’s always going to be some form of controversy when audiences bare certain expectations from directors, and though it’s been two years since then, none of this appears to […]

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Vietnamese Action Is Back With The Promo Teaser For TRUY SAT (TRACER)!

Director Cuong Ngo is ready to put Vietnamese action cinema back in the spotlight with his newest action thriller, Truy Sat (Tracer). Actress Truong Ngoc Anh reunites once more with Ngo followng her role in their stellar 2014 crime flick, Huong Ga, in addition to starring alongside lead actor Thien Nguyen in a story that pits a police woman who sets out to avenge the murder of her family with the help of an undercover cop after a botched attempt to foil a bank robbery. Anh was on hand along with several cast and crew members in Vietnam several days ago at a press conference for the film’s announcement, and accordingly, they’ve unveiled a spectacular action-packed teaser briefly showcasing what’s in store. To say the least, the teaser holds nothing back in presenting Ngo‘s vision of bringing slick action to the screen by way of a meaty handful of Vietnamese-Australian […]

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Wes Ball To Direct Kickstarter-Funded Novel, FALL OF GODS

Director Wes Ball is leaving quite the impression these past few years with his main focus tentatively on the on-going Maze Runner saga as the second film, The Scorch Trials, gears up for its release next month. As such, Fox is determined to have him in the director’s chair once more, it seems, in lieu of plans to adapt Norse epic, Fall Of Gods. Fox has acquired the rights to the Danish-published graphic novel initially conceived at MOOD Studios on Denmark by way of crowdfunding via Kickstarter. MOOD Studios’s own Rasmus Berggreen originally spearheaded the project along with Hitman videogame scribe Michael Vogt to help put what THR describes as a “Scandinavian stamp on Norse mythology” for the book’s vast and multilayered universe. For years he has lived far from society, tending to his farm and trying to forget the battles he fought…and the crimes he committed. But one day […]

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After Dark Announces BASTARD For October's 8 FILMS TO DIE FOR!

Patrick Robert Young and Powell Robinson clearly know their audience. Their latest directorial effort, Bastard now has a trailer up for its October 16 release as per After Dark Films’s 8 Films To Die For slate, and compared to all the other trailers prior, this one’s got some shock value written all over it. By all means, check it out below BEFORE your next meal. Los Angeles, CA (August 25, 2015) – Remember those classic 80’s slasher movies that were all the rave? Well, hold on to your heads, we’re bringing it back to the extreme. Bastard will be the 7th film in the ‘8 Films to Die For’ lineup, in theaters October 16, 2015. “Bastard encompasses all the classic qualities that horror fans crave,” says Franchesca Lantz, Director of Creative Affairs & Acquisitions at After Dark Films, “it’s hard to watch, yet it’s impossible to look away.” Written by […]

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Watch The Official Trailer For ABC Series, QUANTICO

Television has been loading up perpetually on action shows for the last several years with quite a few looking prominent as original offerings, including ABC’s latest, Quantico. Actress Priyanka Chopra takes the lead in this female-centric adventure as one of dozens recruits attending the nation’s toughest FBI training school, and with such a diverse and multi-angular cast of characters, you can definifely count on this one having its fair share of espionage, action and intrigue with the occasional plot twist or several. SYNOPSIS: A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11. The official series trailer is now up and running with the date set for September 27. Check it out below, and for […]

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MMA Fight Drama, STREET, Gets A Limited Release Date!

Director Bradford May‘s new mixed-martial arts fight drama, Street, is finally getting its day on October 30. The film presents actor Beau Casper Smart in his latest debut role which has already been privy to a few exclusive screening and details are now finally trickling online for the film’s limited releases with select cities throughout the U.S. and Canada via the official Facebook page. SYNOPSIS: Remo Street is a 23-year-old former wrestling champion spends his days job searching and with great ingenuity forces himself to train at night whenever and however he can. It seems his life long dream of becoming a professional fighter just might elude him until one fateful night when destiny takes him an entirely new direction. While finishing one evening from a days job hunt this young man is forced to fight for his life when a chance encounter with a beautiful woman puts him in […]

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THE HIT LIST – August 24, 2015

The Hit List is back once again, and gladly it comes loaded once more with some amazing stuff from around the web! As usual, we’re starting things off with this week’s newest online stunt, training and action reels with Deanna Page, Lacey Robinson, Solomon Brende, Tyrone Wiggins, Heather Baroody, Janelle Beaudry, Shawna West, Mike Ryan, Kai Fung Rieck and Reda Oumouzoune. Moving on to other content, this next video comes from J. Matthew Turner who puts a clever spin on interpreting the perpetual storyline that kicked off the highly-heralded Karate Kid trilogy with the first film. It’s pretty hilarious when you watch and listen to it, and it may even have you thinking about whether or not this is the movie you remember. Take a look! Delving further into the expansion of stunt talent in the world, we can largely thank 20th Century Fox in the wake of their latest […]

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Léa Seydoux To Lead With Channing Tatum In GAMBIT For Fox

It’ll be a few months before we see Blue Is The Warmest Color actress Léa Seydoux in Daniel Craig’s next James Bond spy epic, Spectre. Until then as of a few weeks ago, the actress was one of three in line for the lead female role of Belladonna Boudreaux in title actor Channing Tatum‘s upcoming Marvel adaptation, Gambit next to actresses Abbey Lee and Rebecca Ferguson. Since then, Ferguson, who kicked a perpetual load of asses this summer in director Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, dropped the film for the new Emily Blunt thriller, The Girl On The Train. As for the part of the Marvel femme fatale, Deadline reports that Seydoux herself has snagged her place in Gambit amid talks for the role.  Tatum is producing as is Reid Carolin, Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg with a script by Josh Zetumer, based on the 1990-created X-Men […]

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The New Class Rolls Out In The New Trailer For ESSEX BOYS: LAW OF SURVIVAL

The last fifteen years have proven notable for the British gangster genre. Terry Windsor’s 2000 crime pic, Essex Boys, has especially been central to the genre with concentrated stories of underworld crime based on real-world headlines, and you can now chalk up the latest, Essex Boys: Law Of Survival, as another to bookmark in your collection this September. SYNOPSIS: Essex has been the central hub for many famous criminal activities. For generations Essex Boys have ruled the streets of Essex and East London in their underworld empires.  Many people thought this ended in a Range Rover in 1995.  They were wrong…  Danny – an ex hooligan is driven back into a life of crime after his world is turned upside down on the streets of Essex. Steven M. Smith directs with actor Chris Bell leading the cast for the film’s respective theatrical and DVD/VoD releases on September 11 and 21. […]

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GRACE UNDER FIRE: An Interview With Actor, Stuntman And Producer, Sonny Sison

One of the earlier fortunes I had in starting my blog back in 2013 was getting acquainted off and on with actor and stuntman, Sonny Sison. Granted, in months prior to that, I had just seen him in the 2008 action thriller, Broken Path, which is still one of the most fascinating films I had ever seen, and for a number of reasons. Last week, I had the opportunity to share a dialogue with Sison about the film among several others within the span of his career in the past two decades. Having cut his teeth as an actor and stuntman over the years, primarily as a suit actor on the AmeriToku crossover series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and having recently worked with a number of familiar faces fans know and love, I would say there’s plenty of reason to bookmark him as someone worth looking out for in the […]

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The Russos' Wrap CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR!

There’s no question that there will be plenty of more layers to the multi-branched Marvel saga of films leading up to the remainder of the third and final phase of the MCU. In the meantime, we have at least one of those layers slated to peel back on May 6, 2016 for the release of Captain America: Civil War as the good guys and gals defenfing humanity turn on each other, adding to the threat level from all sides. SYNOPSIS: Captain America: Civil War plot picks up where Avengers: Age of Ultron left off, as Steve Rogers leads the new team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to enlist the services of the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers while […]

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'Blade' Fans Are Throwing A BLOODRAVE In Amsterdam This October!

Personally I’ve never been to a rave and nor would I have the time for anything like that. I can imagine they’re all sorts of fun for anyone attending who enjoy mingling in a psychedelic ambience full of young people reveling in high-energy technomusic and what have you. And then then blood comes raining down because of something they saw in a movie once… By “they”, I mean the folks over in Amsterdam looking ahead to a 3-day Bloodrave event set for October 30, 2015. The event is attributed to the opening sequence in Stephen Norrington’s 1998 Marvel action horror success, Blade, and I don’t know if they’re necessarily going to use real blood or some kind of red dye mixture or whatever. However, according to Your EDM, the event hosts have acknowledged this particular inquiry, saying, “…It is pushing borders, but we want to see how far we can […]

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Is George Miller Directing MAN OF STEEL 2?

Warner Bros Warner Bros. has quite the full plate on its hands with their currently fluxating DC cinematic universe. With the course already set for Marvel and Disney, the key focus for Warner Bros. has been to develop its slate as things build up to the Justice League movies set for 2017 and 2019, though that hasn’t been to solidly suggest there wouldn’t be any more titles in between. This fact became pretty clear between news surrounding hype for The Batman at San Diego Comic-Con and discussion of a fresh new Batman trilogy upon a recent private screening of Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice. In parallel, what has also been waiting in the wings are the prospects of more Man Of Steel films following the first installment in 2013 which laid the thematic groundwork for the cinematic universe we are seeing happen right now. That said, it looks pretty […]

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Is 'Street Fighter' Actor Mike Moh Going To Play Bruce Lee In BIRTH OF THE DRAGON?

Call it what you may, some would call it providence. The past several years have been a key interval in screening martial arts and acting talent for several major properties. Accordingly, director Joey Ansah’s efforts to bring Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist to life led to the emergence of Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight co-star, actor and martial artist Mike Moh to the forefront of the film and its upcoming sequel, Street Fighter: World Warrior. Suffice it to say, it’s kept Moh on the map with even more promise of awesome things to come, and you needn’t look further than his official fan page where Moh himself has announced he’s been considered for the title role in director George Nolfi’s upcoming Bruce Lee biopic, Birth Of The Dragon from QED International and Groundswell Productions. Casting had been announced back in June, so it’s safe to say that Moh‘s announcement is rather timely, […]

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CLOSE RANGE Gets Up Close With A Killer Poster And, Once More, The Official Trailer!

About a week ago, someone reportedly jumped the gun on the latest trailer for director Isaac Florentine‘s newest action thriller, Close Range. Thankfully, Bleiberg’s Company B finally unveiled it online just a few days ago, and as of today, the film has a new poster as well, both of which you can check out right now. Action star Scott Adkins leads the film as a former soldier forced to defend his family on their own home turf from a druglord and his men, and the crooked sheriff protecting them, after violently rescuing his niece from their clutches. If you haven’t seen the footage yet, the action is intense as seen in the trailer sampling the usual best out of an Adkins/Florentine paring following their 2013 festival favorite, Ninja 2: Shadow Of A Tear. Plus, you get to see actor and fight choreographer Jeremy Marinas opposite Adkins in a few shots […]

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MEMORIES OF THE SWORD Wields A New U.S. Trailer

There’s no mistake to be made here when it comes to the vision director Park Heung-Sik had in mind for the release of his latest film, Memories Of The Sword. Actresses Kim Go-Eun and Jeon Do-Yeon and actor Lee Byung-Hun take the lead in this sweeping period tale full of sprawling beauty accompanied by tragedy and betrayal that properly befits the caliber of Korean drama storytelling – a point eloquently made by Joey Min in his latest review. Moreover, comparisons to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the like notwithstanding, it’s a film that definitely plays on emotion between scenes of dialogue and high-flying sword action and all the more entertaining for fans of wuxia, and most favorably with Kim in a role in which she really takes charge and does quite the justice. North American staple Well Go USA has since managed to snag this one for a limited theatrical […]

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